A saw mill proprietor at Collingwood gave one of his men the sack for being three -,minutes late in commencing work and the rest of the employes at once went out on strike. 3M1Aos YoCSu, of Sydney, was married on Thursday morning to Irs. Ovendem. The ceremony was performed privately. A i.tAL accident is' rl[ioried` fr?mi Narrahurra Station, near Temora, by the correspondent of tlhe -Telegrph, which resulted in the deothof abrave girl. It appears that Mrs.. Doyle, wife of a boundary rider, had occasion to proceed to the Post Office, about a mile distant, and left her three children, eighteen months, six years, and twelve years of age respectively at home.:. The children some time after -set out to meet their mother on her return. They were pas sing by a ~ink when a baby tumbled in. The eldest girl immediately rushed into the tank, grasped the baby and hold it above the water, but the brave child un fortunately became entangled in some dead timber in the tank, and could not manage to get clear. T'Ihe other child procured a long stick, and reached it to her sister, but, unhappily, the stick was too short. Seeing this, the child dropped the stick, and ran for help to some selectors who lived two miles dis tant. Shortly after the poor mother returned to find her baby on: the water dead, and her eldest daughter drowned in the grasp of dead timber at the bot tom of the tank. TuE question Of taxing bachelors has gatin risen in France. A petition to that effect has been sent to the Chamber of Deputies. It says that an Paris alone there are nearly half a million, whereas the number of married men is not more than 3i79,000. -We are reminded that the tax, singular as it may seem, has already existed in several countries. The French convention adopted it. - So did the old republics. In Sparta the women were allowed to drag bachelors into the Temple of lhercules and give them a sound thrashing. Plato con demned them to a fine. Rome made them pay a round sum. Camillus went farther, and forced them to marry the widows of citizens killed in defending the country. The petitioners say the tax ought to be doubly welcome-first, it will increase -the declining popula tion by inducing bachelors to marry; and, secondly, because it will help to. make up the growingdeficit in the Bad. get.